If you’ve already received the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (which seems to be delayed for the ZA locale) then you would have had the chance to enjoy Microsoft’s Internet Explorer application, which was introduced in the new update. The irony of that is it gets more use now than it ever did on PC.

In any case, part and parcel of the introduction of Internet Explorer has been Microsoft’s removal of the Facebook and Twitter apps for Xbox LIVE, something that seems a bit obvious when explained so clearly but was admittedly a little confounding even to me, at first.

Basically, the decision was reportedly made in order to encourage users to use the Internet Explorer app instead, which has an acceptable level of HTML functionality and therefore can run Facebook and Twitter.

Now while the social networking apps (which would undoubtedly be better individually) have been removed from the LIVE Marketplace, they are still accessible if you’ve previously downloaded and tried them out, so that’s totally a cool nod from Microsoft, in our direction. That, or it’s an oversight. Makes no matter.

any sentence with the words “removes” and “Twitter”, is a good sentence.

Michael Matusowsky

You are joking, right? Twitter is by far one of the most useful apps/websites on the planet. Imagine an application YOU make gets used to topple an autocratic government? It is by far the easiest way to connect with people with similar ideas all over the world by simply using a hashtag. Facebook on the otherhand… Get that shit away.

RichardJonathanDubbeld

still isn’t on my dashboard btw. still waiting.

Michael Matusowsky

So Microsoft is forcing people to use Internet Explorer. This violates EU regulations. Inb4 class action lawsuit because microsoft doesn’t let people choose which browser they use on the xbox console >.>